Which Hive database did you specify in your CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE statement?
How did you specify the location of the file?
This one creates an external table testme in database test in the location
under database test
scala> sqltext = """
| CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE test.testme (
| col1 int
| )
| STORED AS ORC
| LOCATION '/user/hive/warehouse/test.db/testme'
| """
sqltext: String =
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE test.testme (
col1 int
)
STORED AS ORC
LOCATION '/user/hive/warehouse/test.db/testme'
scala> sql(sqltext)
res18: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = []
scala> sql("select count(1) from test.testme").show
+--------+
|count(1)|
+--------+
| 0|
+--------+
And you can see it in Hive as well
hive> desc test.testme;
OK
col1 int
Time taken: 0.102 seconds, Fetched: 1 row(s)
HTH
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On 18 August 2016 at 23:08, SRK <swethakasire...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I created an external table in Spark sql using hiveContext ...something
> like
> CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS sampleTable stored as ORC LOCATION ...
>
> I can see the files getting created under the location I specified and able
> to query it as well... but, I don't see the table in Hive when I do show
> tables in Hive. Any idea as to why this is happening?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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